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DIGITAL BE-IN 15: BIOMIMICRY

2007-04-03T21:05:19Z

Cyberset Music and Media
Green Century Institute and
Urban Alliance for Sustainability
are pleased to announce

DIGITAL BE-IN 15: BIOMIMICRY

AN EIGHT HOUR EARTH DAY WEEKEND INTENSIVE!

Biomimicry Symposium - 7-9 <<>> Live Music and DJs - 9-3 <<>> Ritual Prayerformance <<>> Take Action Zone <<>> Green Techné Exhibit <<>> Visionary Speakers <<>> Midnight Ambiotica Salon <<>> Live Netcast <<>> Organic Edibles <<>> Gaian Goddess Décor <<>> Virtual Be-In in Second Life

April 21, 2007
7 pm to 3 am
Mezzanine - 444 Jessie Street, San Francisco, CA
Tickets ONLY $15 in advance - $20 at door
Presale Tickets at http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=15735
Digital Be-In 15 is a 21 and over event

For more info - http://www.be-in.com

San Francisco's original cyberculture event returns on Earth Day weekend: Digital Be-In 15 is a combination symposium, exhibition and multimedia entertainment extravaganza featuring world class "conscious music" artists and New Edge visionaries.

With a theme of "Biomimicry," the 2007 Digital Be-In is a launching pad for new initiatives in the sustainability movement - and an Activation Celebration of the Green Revolution!

FEATURING:

Aphrodesia
Rara Avis
Constance Demby
Goddess Alchemy Project
Welder
Mystical Sun
Alex Theory
Trinity
Dov
Goz

Alchemimicry Prayerformance by Mystic Family Circus with Constance Demby and Trinity

Surprise Appearances by Rob Brezsny, Larry Harvey... and others who want to surprise us!

Visuals by Digital Dan, VJ Arcane and Cyberset

Burning Man "Green Man" Design Preview in Google Earth

Species Alliance "Call of Life" Film Preview

BIOMIMICRY SYMPOSIUM
7 pm - 9 pm (Come early! - Doors open at 6:30)
"Nature as Model, Mentor and Measure"

Presenters include:
Janine Benyus - Biomimicry Institute
Paul Hawken - WISER Earth
Peter Berg - Planet Drum Foundation
Ervin Laszlo - Club of Budapest
Greg Steltenpohl - Interra
(see http://www.be-in.com for complete presenter list)

TAKE ACTION ZONE
9 pm - 12 am
Linking up and using tools to make the change

GREEN TECHNÉ EXHIBITION
Evolutionary technology triggers

AMBIOTICA NEW EDGE SALON
12 am - 3 am
Gaian groove journey and mind mixer

VIRTUAL BE-IN
7 pm - 3 am (and beyond)
Parallel event in Second Life online virtual world

Décor and Installations by Trinity Domino, Joegh Bullock/Anon Salon and Urban Alliance for Sustainability
Organic Edibles

TICKETS
$15 in advance - $20 at door
$100 VIP - see http://www.be-in.com/tix for VIP package info and ticket purchase
Presale Tickets at http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=15735
Ceiba Records 463 Haight St SF 415-437-9598
Skills 2595 Telegraph Ave Berkeley 510-704-9876

INFO – NETCAST
http://www.be-in.com
http://www.greencenturyinstitute.org
http://www.uas.coop
http://www.urth.TV

The Digital Be-In 15 is a production of Cyberset Music and Media, in collaboration with the Urban Alliance for Sustainability and the Green Century Institute.

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40th Anniversary of the first Be-In

2006-09-02T19:41:32Z

Hey, I was wondering if anyone had be talking about hosting another Be-In on Oct. 7 for the 40th Anniversary of the first one in Golden Gate Park. I think that would be righteous.

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LIVE BLOG from Be-In floor, Saturday into Sunday AM

2006-04-28T06:18:34Z

That's right, Cinnamon Twist plus guests TBA, will be blogging throughout the event, at
http://people.tribe.net/digitalbein

Bringing you comments, interviews with speakers & attendees, . . . & who knows, maybe even a little "New Edge Gossip". . . (sans the biting sarcasm, we hope!)

We'll also be uploading video clips as well, same page.

Stay tuned. . .

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David Ulansey -- Mass Extinction

2006-04-27T17:08:00Z

Mp3 interview:
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/greenfestival.html

Ulansey letter to NYTimes:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFDF173BF932A25757C0A9659C8B63

Website:
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html

About David:

David Ulansey is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Boston University, Barnard College (Columbia University), the University of Vermont, and Princeton University. He is the author of a book published by Oxford University Press (and is now completing a second book which will also be published by Oxford), and has published articles in Scientific American and numerous other scholarly journals.

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Thank You

2006-04-25T21:58:45Z

Thank you to everyone who made the event a unique a special occasion, it's really hard to combine unique and earth conscious content to a good party and I think it came through. Thanks to all the folks dancing in all the arenas, great vibes and big smiles ;)

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pics from the gathering!!

2006-04-25T01:26:56Z

posted some of my pics, enjoy!!

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free post

2006-04-23T05:54:27Z

my laptop is open to users throughout...
expect opionions

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be-in

2006-04-23T05:05:19Z

cool speakers....the interra project a local sustainable 'credit card' that keeps money in the community sounds beautiful. the soon er the better..... right now good bongo jam gotta go- mikie

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San Francisco Peak Oil Resolution

2006-04-22T17:04:46Z

Passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors! Almost zero major media coverage thus far, however!

http://www.energybulletin.net/15086.html

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Califia

2006-04-14T21:37:31Z

Califia, a proposed model eco-city project for the San Francisco Bay Area, is being developed by the Green Century Institute. The pioneering settlement will combine a revolutionary "arcological" (architecture-ecology) design integrating cutting edge sustainable development and technology resources with community innovations. These innovations include extended family communal housing configurations, new kinds of public facilities and services, advanced power generation and recycling systems, permaculture farms and greenhouses, non-traditional financing and "social capital" programs. Envisioned as a dramatic, integrated complex melding natural environments with dense urban spaces, Califia will be built in phases over a 10 year period. Michael Gosney and Marc Kasky, co-founders of GCI, will discuss Califia at the Be-In's Planet Code Symposium, and will convene a facilitated visioning workshop at the California Institute of Integral Studies on Saturday May 20, 2006 from 1 to 5 pm. The workshop will include invited experts and potential stakeholders - those interested in attending should contact Scott Fossel @ scott.fossel@gmail.com, and see
www.greencenturyinstitute.org.

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Randy Hayes

2006-04-14T21:35:36Z

Bio

Randy Hayes, Executive Director Randy Hayes, founder and board president of Rainforest Action Network, is the executive director of IFG. Believing that the international and national levels have failed to date to orchestrate the shift to a deeper ecological sustainability, Randy calls for a green city-led, bottom-up movement to revolutionize the economy. He sees this as our best shot to protect the large natural systems that nurture all life as well as to foster dignified lives for all people. Randy is a veteran of many high-visibility corporate accountability campaigns and has advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples. He worked as the President to the City of San Francisco Commission on the Environment and Director of Sustainability in the office of Oakland with Mayor Jerry Brown. Randy has a Master’s degree in Environmental Planning from San Francisco State University; his master’s thesis was the award-winning film The Four Corners, which won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award for “Best Student Documentary” in 1983. He is a contributing author to Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible.

www.ifg.org

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Rick Tarnas: Understanding Our Moment in History

2006-04-14T18:34:32Z

Understanding Our Moment in History: An Interview witih Richard Tarnas:
http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/tarnas.html

Scott London: You point out that a widespread sense of urgency is tangible on many levels today, as if one historical era is coming to an end and another is about to begin.

Richard Tarnas: Yes, there is a real awareness that things have to change. People are becoming increasingly conscious of the fact that the ecological situation is critical and that we cannot continue to live according to the same assumptions with which we have lived blithely for the past several hundred years. There are also social, economic, and political dimensions to the crisis. There is the unprecedented plurality of perspectives and worldviews and religious and philosophical and political perspectives that are in the air. And, when it comes down to it, there is a spiritual crisis that pervades our world.

I think it affects everybody, but the more informed and thoughtful a person is, the more aware they are of the reality of the spiritual crisis. We live in a world in which mainstream, conventional modern science has essentially voided the cosmos of all intrinsic meaning and purpose. There is no spiritual dimension to it from its point of view. The intellectual power of mainstream modern science has effectively defined what kind of cosmos we live in. And yet human beings aspire for spiritual significance in the life that they lead and in the world that they live in. It is only, I think, though going through a profound inner transformation, and also an intellectual transformation, that one can see beyond that crisis and come into a world of a different kind.

London: There is a lot of talk now about paradigm shifts, about the emergence of new conceptual frameworks and intellectual orientations. Is that what you are talking about?

Tarnas: Very much. We're in what people call the postmodern era. If we are to define what postmodern is, it is in many ways the era between eras. Every era, in a sense, has a worldview that informs its ways of looking at history, at the human being in the world, and so forth. In the postmodern era, our worldview is so fraught with uncertainty that we don't know for sure what is objectively out there. So there is a kind of skepticism about any worldview, about any paradigms. Our postmodern paradigm is, in a sense, "anti-paradigmatic" — it is against the very idea that there could be a compelling, comprehensive Worldview

London: When Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea of paradigms back in the early sixties, he was speaking of them in the context of science. One of the points he made is that young scientists, or people who are new to the profession, tend to be the most important carriers of the new paradigm. Also, a paradigm shift is never really complete until the old guard dies. Are we are seeing the death of the old order?

Tarnas: Yes, very much. I think Thomas Kuhn quoted Max Planck about the idea that a paradigm in science does not shift simply because the evidence in favor of the new one begins to outweigh the old paradigm. It's not a rational, empirical shift. That is because there is so much investment — psychological, unconscious, as well as economic — in the old paradigm by individuals who have lived their whole lives within it. They can't go through that kind of gestalt switch. As Kuhn says, two people who are working within different paradigms are almost, in a sense, in different universes. If you have lived within one long enough and you are not graced with a kind of illumination which helps you break out of the old worldview, it is very difficult to make your way into it.

London: Can you offer any examples?

Tarnas: Oh, sure. There are all kinds of implications of David Bohm's work in physics, for example, or Rupert Sheldrake's work in biology, or Gregory Bateson's work in systems theory. But if you were to read most of the conventional papers or commentaries in physics or biology journals, you would see that one those rare occasions when Rupert Sheldrake or David Bohm come into their discussion, it is with total scorn or rejection, and very little sensitive appreciation for what is actually happening.

That is fairly typical. When Copernicus said what he had to say in 1543, very few people were ready to hear it and it took a generation or two before enough intelligent people were able to marshal enough evidence, and enough other factors — sociological, religious, philosophical, technological (like the coming of the telescope into Galileo's hands) — to bring about a paradigm shift, even though the basic framework of the new paradigm was totally in place and articulated fifty years earlier. So one has to be patient.

More at:
http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/tarnas.html

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Kaliya Hamlin

2006-04-14T18:21:35Z

Kaliya Hamlin - Network Director (Bio from PlaNetwork)

Has been an active member of the Planetwork community for three years. She brings her natural networking and community bridge-building capacity to this work. Last year she began starting Planetwork chapters in other cities and this year stepped up and became Network Director.

In 2003 Identity Commons hired Kaliya to evangelize on its behalf in multiple communities, partly because she was doing it already. Kaliya's persona as Identity Woman emerged in January 2004 as she continued to participate in the larger Identity 2.0 and "meta identity system" discussions. Currently, she works on behalf of the whole identity ecosystem, helping develop XRI/XDI and servers as an advisor for several companies on user-centric identity.

An active member of the Drupal open source community, she co-founded and co-directs a social enterprise (earned-income nonprofit) called Integrative Activism, which builds Drupal sites for values-based communities.

Kaliya came to the Bay Area from Vancouver, Canada to study at UC Berkeley, where she graduated with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Political Economy and Human Rights. She also minored in Demography and Environmental Science Policy Management. Throughout college Kaliya played on the Canadian National Water Polo Team and won a Gold Medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. Her "inner geek" roots can be traced to winning the regional science fair and making it to the Canada Wide Science Fair in grade 7 and 9.

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Visionary State -- Forthcoming Book by Erik Davis

2006-04-14T18:14:06Z

Sometime in 2007.

Visit Erik's website techgnosis.com for updates.

Erik's bio:

Erik Davis is a San Franciso-based writer, culture critic, and independent scholar. His book TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information was released by Harmony Books in the fall of 1998. It has been translated into five languages, and has achieved, in certain circles, the vaguely enviable status of a "cult classic." Davis is a contributing writer for Wired magazines, and wrote "The Posthuman Condition" column for the sadly departed online magazine Feed. His essays have appeared in over half a dozen books, including Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics (Chronicle), The Disinformation Book of Lies (Disinfo), Prefiguring Cyberculture (MIT Press) and Paul "DJ Spooky" Miller's Sound Unbound (MIT). He has contributed articles and essays to a wide variety of publications, including Bookforum, The Wire, ArtByte, the LA Weekly, Gnosis, and the Village Voice. His articles have been translated for publication in countries ranging from Japan to Brazil to Hungary.

Davis has taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the New York Open Center, and Esalen, and was one of the organizers of Planetwork, a conference on information technology and global ecology held in San Francisco in 2000. He has been interviewed by CNN, has popped up on radio shows internationally, and appeared prominently in Craig Baldwin's underground film, the SciFi media critique Specters of the Spectrum. His in-depth studies of the science fiction author Philip K. Dick have been acknowledged by the New Yorker. Davis has also lectured internationally on topics relating to media arts, contemporary electronic music, and spirituality in the postmodern world.

Davis is a fifth-generation Californian, and is currently working with the photographer Michael Rauner on California Visions, a photo-essay travelogue through the Golden State's landscape of alternative spirituality. He is also at work on a short book about Led Zeppelin, and various fragments of bardo fiction.

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Marc Kasky

2006-04-14T18:02:52Z

Marc Kasky -- S.F. man changes from customer to Nike adversary

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/03/MN149517.DTL

Marc Kasky, the San Francisco man who is making mighty Nike quake in its sneakers, says he used to wear Nikes all the time.

He's a jogger and once had quite a few pairs of Nikes in his closet, but that was before he decided the sneaker company was being, well, sneaky.

"I saw something that I thought was wrong, and I wanted to do something about it," Kasky said Thursday in San Francisco. So he sued Nike Inc. in 1998 over its public statements about working conditions in overseas factories. On Thursday, the California Supreme Court ruled that Kasky could, indeed, sue the big sportswear firm.

"I feel very happy about the court's ruling," he said. "It means a company can't misrepresent itself and gain from it."

Kasky is a former marathon runner and a regular jogger along the San Francisco waterfront and on the grounds of Fort Mason Center, where he served for two decades as a top executive for the nonprofit cultural center.

He says he likes Nike shoes, too -- but he stopped buying them about seven years ago, when he began to suspect that the company was being less than honest in its public statements about the working conditions in the overseas shoe factories it deals with.

"Nike makes a very good product," he said. "But we all need to be accountable for our words and actions. Nike has been representing itself as a model corporate citizen, and it was disappointing and discouraging when I began to suspect otherwise."

Kasky, a 58-year-old native of Stamford, Conn., has a long history of environmental, volunteer and community service.

He received degrees from Wesleyan and Yale universities. In the 1960s, he was a volunteer with VISTA, known as the domestic Peace Corps, working to improve a poor neighborhood in Cleveland.

He came to San Francisco in the 1970s and served as president of the San Francisco Ecology Center in North Beach. He later was assistant director and executive director of Fort Mason Center, a collection of educational foundations located at the former Fort Mason army base on the northern waterfront.

In recent years, he has worked as a consultant on a similar conversion of a former military base in downtown San Diego, scheduled to open next year.

Getting money from Nike, he said, was not why he filed the lawsuit in 1998. Kasky does not expect to get anything, and his attorney, Alan Caplan, has worked without compensation on the case for four years.

"The mill does grind slowly, doesn't it?" said Kasky.

Kasky will be gratified if a trial about Nike's claims regarding overseas factory conditions takes place someday.

"I don't know how this is going to be resolved," he said. "But I want to see them try to verify (in court) all the things they said they were doing in their public statements and advertising. If Nike profited wrongfully from its actions, then there should be remuneration."

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Patrick Flanagan, About. . .

2006-04-14T17:39:43Z

Dr. Patrick Flanagan possesses a unique ability to reorganize key concepts from a variety of applied sciences to solve intractable problems. He is a futurist with deep encyclopedic knowledge of the applied sciences.

Dr. Flanagan's solutions are real and scientifically proven to work. At 11 years of age, he designed a missile detection system that was purchased by the Department of Defense. At age 13, he invented a device enabling deaf people to hear and received two patents for it. At 17, he was part of a Pentagon Think Tank and later was a consultant to the CIA, NSA, and NASA. As a physicist and medical doctor, Patrick Flanagan realized that his passion for the applied sciences grew out of a deep love and desire to protect humanity and life itself.

For decades, Dr. Flanagan has openly invited stringent scrutiny of his research and discoveries by the medical and scientific communities. The seeds of this effort are blossoming at an exponential rate as the scientific community is validating and embracing his extraordinary contributions. Academics and researchers at universities from Oxford to Stanford are beginning to study Dr. Flanagan's breakthrough discoveries and teach them to Scientists of the future.

Click here to see Life Magazine
Article about Dr. Flanagan

In the spirit of humanitarianism, openness, and sharing, it is Dr. Flanagan's profound desire to share his discoveries with the world of science in the hope that they may be used to improve human life. After years of delivering inventions in biochemistry, physics, nanotechnology, and medicine to governments and major corporations, Dr. Flanagan's life mission to extend human life and improve the quality of that life, is being realized.

A prolific inventor, Dr. Flanagan is credited with over 300 inventions and was named 1997 Scientist of the Year by the International Association for New Science. He also holds a patent pending on his process of manufacturing a delivery system for H- in living systems and industrial processes. Dr. Flanagan holds advanced degrees in nanotechnology, chemistry, bio-sciences and medicine. He currently lives in Northern California with his wife Stephanie.

http://www.phisciences.com/
Flanagan profile in Life Magazine, 1962:
ttp://www.phisciences.com/lifemagazine.html

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Sustainable Communities Thread

2006-04-12T03:02:40Z

Urban Environmental Accords, Eco-cities, Permaculture, High Technology and Sustainability . . . all fall under the umbrella of Sustainable Communities theme for the upcoming PlanetCode Symposium. Post your thoughts, events, links here to get a discussion going. . .

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Jim Fournier - Backgrounder

2006-04-12T02:39:44Z

Jim Fournier - Has worked as an industrial designer, entrepreneur, software developer, systems analyst and industrial ecologist. For the last several years he has focused on initiatives to create new Internet software and identity protocols to better inter-connect a global network of people and organizations who share ecological and social justice values. He is currently involved with founding Eprida, a startup company which offers a fundamental technology breakthrough for reversing climate change by producing sustainable energy and a restorative high-carbon fertilizer for biomass and coal.

At twenty three he founded his first company, JLF Designs, which rapidly grew into a premier line of international high-design consumer products, selling in the finest stores throughout the world in the 1980's and winning numerous design awards, including Accent, ID, IDSA and Axis in Japan. His product design work, and love of geometry, led him into computer aided design, then modeling and animation, and ultimately to developing 3D modeling software as a geometry partner with Silicon Graphics in the early 90's. Before retiring from the business world in 1995 to focus full time on global sustainability and the evolution of consciousness, Fournier also served as the ecology editor for the Industrial Design Society of America where he was an early advocate of industrial ecology.

In addition to Eprida, he is currently working on his doctoral dissertation re-framing the evolution of technology in the context of biological evolution, entitled Meta-Nature. Fournier did undergraduate work in architecture, physics and chemistry at Bennington College and went on to study architecture at MIT. He currently serves on the board of Planetwork, Channel G and the Parapsychology Research Group, and on the advisory boards of numerous organizations including, Highfield Foundation, Meru Foundation, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Peoples World, ManyOne Networks and SF Greenmaps.

URL's:

eprida.com
planetwork.net

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Women and the Environment

2006-04-12T02:34:33Z

Are there any women in the environment? Or is the environment just made of women? Are women more pro-environment than men? By nature or by nurture?

Oops, just kidding!

Here's another thread to help initiate discussions leading up to the PlanetCode Symposium April 20, Digital Be-In 14.

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Climate Change and the Media, Reality and the Future

2006-04-12T02:25:24Z

Alex Steffen @ WorldChanging comments on 2006 as the media's "climate change tipping point" year:

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004297.html

With an increasingly well-documented and articulated global ecological crisis on our hands, turning off the faucet and recycling the newspaper (while fine things to do) are pretty meaningless. The 21st Century does demand that we buy hybrids -- indeed, it demands much more: it demands that we imagine, build and buy cars which ecologically make hybrids look like hummers. It demands a complete redesign of our industrial civilization, from the chemicals we use to the energy we create to the cities we design to the way we deal with water and waste to the buildings in which we live. We are way, way beyond tinkering at the margins here.

So how is it that, in the very same issue which describes Manhattan disappearing beneath the rising waters of a warming world, we also find comments like Halberstadt's?

I think it has to do with vision. Even those of us who get it (who recognize that our civilization is impelled to change itself utterly or be utterly changed by forces beyond our control), and who believe that we can create instead a bright, green future (one which is both more prosperous and far more sustainable than our own) have a damn hard time telling people what such a future will look like. We can't build what we can't imagine, but very, very little good work is being done on imagining and portraying a future exciting and inspiring enough to fight for.

In the absence of such visions, the necessary magnitude of changes to our status quo are simply unimaginable to most people. And if those changes are unimaginable, then can we really fault people (like Ms. Halberstadt, who I've really been unfairly picking on) who still honestly believe that little things will somehow add up to the kind of response we need? I don't think we can. The fault is not theirs, if they have never been shown a better way. We have work to do, I think.

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004297.html

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The Green Stampede Begins. . .

2006-04-12T02:11:07Z

Vanity Fair, Green Issue:

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/pressroom/

VANITY FAIR’S FIRST-EVER “GREEN ISSUE”

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz

Vanity Fair presents its first “Green Issue,” beginning an “increased commitment to reporting on the threat to our precious environment,” says editor Graydon Carter. The May cover features a quartet of eco–power players, capturing Hollywood glamour and activist passion: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Al Gore, Julia Roberts, and George Clooney, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Articles inside address the pressing environmental issues of the day: Mark Hertsgaard reports on the reality of global warming; Michael Shnayerson writes on the Appalachian mountaintop-mining crisis; and a Green Guide offers up 50 simple things you can do in your daily life to help save the planet.

The May Green Issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on April 5 and nationally April 11.

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Jair Bio

2006-04-09T07:33:10Z

Jair . . .

http://www.imaginifiy.org

. . . is a multidimensional artist, composer, performer, producer and systems architect; he collaboratively bridges theories with practical applications. His integrative approach to higher education started with digital art, film and installation sculpture at UCSB, coupled with screenwriting at UCLA. As a music composer and alumni of Future Music Oregon, he received his degree in music composition under the guidance of Guggenheim fellow, David Crumb at the University of Oregon (UO). His background in Music Technology cultivated a path towards innovative uses of analog and digital technologies to create neo-organic compositions. While at the UO, he started The Theurgic Seed Cooperative, a convergent media group that performs and develops live and multimedia atmospheric projects. Continuing with this project and new formats, he has toured a broad range of genres, styles and concepts. The project coalesced into a critically-acclaimed cd & dvd "this is not a (c/s)ell."

--- He is currently a member of the Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamics (CAND) focus group in the UO Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences. His role in this project is to present new media methodologies, serving as a conduit for inspiring collaboration, edutainment experiences and online community architecture. In addition, he speaks on issues including: ecology, bioethics, free culture, remixing, complexity, simplicity, integral theories and open source at a variety of conferences and symposia. He is founder of the Imaginify Community Network, a collaborative exploration connecting theoretical knowledge to practical solutions. This project brings collective dialog and deliberation to a diversity of memes and approaches, offering solutions to seed, sprout and pollinate.

♦ The Metamedia Cooperation is an adventure into the kaleidoscopic world of art, science and community. Rounding out these transdisciplinary experiences are cutting-edge academic thinkers, as well as Open Space for communities at the forefront of ecological design, permaculture and planning. Also included is a series of art installations which feature established and up and coming conceptual and visionary artists. Advisor and/or consultant to: The Digital Visions Program at Stanford, UO Sustainable Business Symposium, San Francisco Earth Day 06, Uplift Academy, Evolver Project, GivingSpace, Interra, Planetwork, Holocosmos, Identity Commons & Identity Woman and various ecological groups.

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Interra Project

2006-04-04T17:38:27Z

Some background info on Jon Raymer, another PlanetCode presenter:

Enabling a Community-Driven Marketplace
for Civic Good

In the context of a growing dominance of large, centralized businesses, an eroding sense of community and connection, failing local economies, and environmental degradation, a group of over 100 visionaries have come together with Dee Hock, the founder of Visa International and Greg Steltenpohl, founder of the Odwalla juice company to enable systemic change. Interra empowers citizen consumers to wield a tool they use everyday—credit and debit cards—to influence how things are made and disposed of, how money circulates within their communities, and how businesses, in general, behave.

Consumers own the power of 70% of GNP, but until now they have not wielded it to better their communities and the world at large.
Consumers can register their existing payment cards or apply for a new Interra card. All cards are connected to a transaction platform that rewards consumers for purchasing from locally owned and sustainable businesses, automates donations to nonprofit organizations, and facilitates connections to like minded members in a self organizing manner. As a result, Interra will:

* Empower consumers to take back ownership of their communities, improving environmental, cultural, and economic health through their everyday purchasing decisions
.
* Speed the growth of environmentally and socially minded industry by stimulating conscious consumerism, enabling the “right” products and services to compete, and collecting consumer behavior data that proves consumer interest in buying community regenerative products. This will result in a profound effect on the health of local and global ecosystems—and the people who depend on them—as well as the social standards for how workers are treated

* Tap into the philanthropic impulse that resides within American culture, creating a new, reliable source of funding for nonprofits

"From my perspective the need for what Interra intends is rapidly becoming overwhelming. If you can devise an organizational concept that in ownership and governance would include both the cardholders and the merchants ... it could be a huge success and constructive alternative to the present situation."
Dee Hock, founder Visa International

http://www.interraproject.org

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Planet Code: Environmental / Social Justice

2006-04-04T06:42:46Z

Open thread for speakers and any interested parties for this theme at the upcoming Be-In, April 15.

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Campware / AroundMe. . . Eric Sundelhof

2006-04-04T06:05:54Z

Campware- Developing a platform for open source solutions for independent news media organizations in emerging democracies:

Information is power. One way to support the pursuit of truth in media is the creation of a cellphone platform which will allow and encourage locals around the world to “report” their stories. By giving these voices a vehicle by which they can tell their stories from their native point of view, citizens from all countries can be better informed.
Bio

Erik Sundelöf comes from an academic background in advanced chemical technology, programming and numerical analysis. He has a PhD Licentiate in Technology, Numerical analysis, and a Master in Science, Chemical Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Apart from that Erik am a core developer of the social networking softwares AroundMe and Igloo.

URL: http://www.campware.org
http://campsite-demo.campware.org/

"Campsite Overview
Campsite is a multilingual content management system (CMS) for news websites.

Campsite's easily localizable user interface was built with the end user (journalist/editor/publisher) in mind and it can be configured to suit different profiles of end users – to each according his or her own technological prowess.

Campsite follows the print-newspaper publishing paradigm, so it structures sites by default as Publications > Issues > Sections > Articles. Campsite works best for medium-to-large-size online news publications, but it is capable of handling nimbler sites too. Some of its main features are highly customizable user interface, total design freedom for web designers, automatic creation of archives, copy flow, and built-in subscription support."

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John Clippinger -- Renaissance of the Commons, Social Physics

2006-04-04T05:55:19Z

John Clippinger

Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for Law at Harvard University

John has a long involvement in the intersection of technologies, markets and social and political institutions. Throughout his career in academia, business and government he has had a stubborn interest in self-organizing systems and how digital technologies can create new forms of social, political and cultural organization.

Over the last two years, he has been researching and writing about how discoveries in the new sciences such as the neuro-sciences, complexity sciences and evolutionary biology and sociology are transforming our understanding of Human Nature, specifically, the role of trust, reputation, social emotions, and self organization in forming effective forms of social and economic exchange. (Renaissance of the Commons, 2003).

As a part of his interest in studying how spontaneous social networks form and adapt, John has been engaged in the design of networked based organizations whereby decision rights are distributed to the edge of the organization and control is achieved through transparency, trust, and reputation, He is co-founder of the Open Source movement, Social Physics, to develop an open peer to peer platform/browser for the formation and governance of self-organizing social networks and is completing a book for the Command and Control Research Program of the DoD on edge organizations, Operating on the Edge: Meeting Current and Future Security Challenges ( 2004).

While at The Berkman Center, John will be organizing multi-disciplinary seminars and workshops on the implications of the New Sciences research on Human Nature in the areas of social signaling, trust, contracts, agency, rationality and choice, property, and norms of social exchange. In parallel he will conduct workshops exploring how to write effective social protocols to enable the emergence of trusted networks of social, cultural and economic exchange.

John has been a consultant on Network Centric Warfare (NCW) and edge organization to the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks, Information and Integration). Previously, he was CEO of Context Media LLC, a knowledge management software and services company and Director, Intellectual Capital, at Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) where he developed one of the first intranets for knowledge management, CLIC, (Coopers & Lybrand Intellectual Capital) and also headed an Advanced Technology Group in Digital Media. Prior to joining Coopers & Lybrand, he was CEO of Brattle Research Corporation, which developed artificial intelligence, language processing and search software for financial services, publishing, and intelligence applications. He is author and editor of the book, The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise (Jossey-Bass, 1999)

John’s career has been as a leading innovator, policy maker, strategist and entrepreneur in the application of advanced computer technologies and the recipient of three software patents. In collaboration with a team from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, he designed the first program to simulate complex, self-reflective human conversation, which led to the book, Meaning and Discourse. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977). As a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Information Resources Policy, he became involved in information policy, the impact of telecommunications technologies and policies on developing countries, privacy and trans-border data flow issues and in the formation of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. He has been the recipient of many awards from the National Science Foundation as well as the Department of Defense, and has served as an advisor to the Department of State, FCC, OTA, and the White House.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS evening news, business news radio and talk shows, and in the print media, (New York Times, Computer World, Network, Release 1.0, Wall Street Journal), as a commentator on the impact of new technologies on business.

John is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Senior Fellow at the Boston University School of Management’s Institute for Leading a Dynamic Economy, and is a member and regular participant of the Pentagon sponsored Highland Forum, The Aspen Institute, CEO Leadership Institute of Yale University School of Management, and The Santa Fe Institute Business Network.

http://www.jclippinger.com/ba.html

MP3 Interview from SuperNova Conference:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail676.html

The Biology of Business
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/078794324X/103-2107464-9240602?v=glance&n=283155

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Redwood Mary, Speaker @ Planet Code Symposium

2006-04-03T21:18:58Z

Redwood Mary on "Consumption Connections to Global Inequality"
http://www.satyamag.com/sept00/redwoodmar.html

Women's Global Green Action Network: Who We Are
http://www.wggan.org/article.php?list=type&type=31

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Renewable Energy Solutions: Consumer Options, Power Grid Conversion

2006-04-03T20:04:32Z

Anybody have the link to the recent UK report on micro-grids?

Experience with home PV feeding juice back to the grid and getting paid for it?

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Electric Light Rail as Solution to Oil Depletion?

2006-04-03T19:48:46Z

Electrification of transportation as a response to peaking of world oil production
ttp://www.energybulletin.net/14492.html

The technology for electrification of transportation is extremely well proven and widely used (more so outside the US) and, from an energy BTU/joule point-of-view, highly efficient. Well-established modes of electrified transportation in use today provide many more freight ton-miles/BTU and passenger-miles per BTU than the competing rubber-tired, oil-burning transportation alternatives.

The ratio in energy efficiency is so great, especially when electrified rail is substituted for "18 wheeler" tractor trailers and single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs), that minimal, if any, expansion of the national electricity grid will be required to reduce U.S. national oil consumption by 10%, or about two million barrels per day.

Electrified transportation is also much more environmentally benign as well. Central power plants are more efficient thermodynamically and their emissions can be more easily controlled. Electric motors are dramatically more efficient than internal combustion engines.

There are three viable electrified modes available in the USA today: (1) urban rail – rapid/heavy rail, high-performance light rail transit (LRT), and streetcars, (2) electric trolleybuses, and (3) electrified inter-city railroad lines (predominantly freight, but with a passenger component).

The US could learn from the French "Grand Strategy" of using domestic nuclear and hydroelectric power to operate electrified inter-city transportation and urban rail. A majority of French towns of 250,000 or more are now getting at least one new tram line.

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Clean Tech Open

2006-04-03T19:44:16Z

CA Clean Tech is a sponsor & presenter at the April 22 PlanetCode Symposium.

"The city of San Francisco is hosting a competition for companies helping the environment. The winner will receive $100,000 in cash and a package of business services, including public relations, legal services from Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini, and a year of free office space. Four runners-up will receive $50,000 as well as the business service package. Check www.cacleantech.com."

Also cited in SJ Mercury News, below:

Venture capitalist Doerr makes pitch for green tech
ttp://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/14185196.htm

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Building the Green Economy

2006-04-03T19:40:55Z

Conscious Consumers & Green Start-Ups. Another theme at the Planet Code Symposium.

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Be-In 14/ Climate Change

2006-04-01T04:30:45Z

Jumpstarting a thread here for dialogue about climate change; seeding the discussion for the Symposium at Digital Be-In 14/PlanetCode.

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Be-In 2006?

2006-03-30T02:09:33Z

Are there any plans for a Digital Be-In this year? What kind of critical mass needs to be reached to make it happen? It seems to happen about every other year except a couple times when one followed another...
I'd like to help out.

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Planet Code Discussions at digitalbein Tribe

2006-03-30T02:07:30Z

Hi.

In anticipation of the upcoming Digital Be-In 14 / "Planet Code" event (April 20, SF), we're jumpstarting some discussions on the digitalbein tribe here (digitalbein.tribe.net)

Feel free to jump in and talk about what you think are the most burning questions and most important developments on the themes below. The program of the event is still evolving, and you're input can help guide the agenda and discussions at the event itself.

"Building a Sustainable Culture" is the umbrella theme.

Sub-themes:be page: htt

Climate Change
Environmental Justice/Social Justice
Renewable Energy Solutions: Consumer Options, Power Grid Conversion
Sustainable Communities: Urban Environmental Accords, Eco-cities, Permaculture
High Technology and Sustainability
Women and the Environment
Building the Green Economy: Conscious Consumers and Green Start-ups

Event info follows below:

DIGITAL BE-IN 14
THE EARTH DAY BE-IN
April 22, 2006
SOMARTS Gallery
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco

Planet Code Symposium
5 pm to 9
Green Frontier Exhibition
5 pm to 10 pm
Eco-Activation Celebration
Luminaries and Special Guests, Performances, Live Music, DJs
9 pm - late

Welcome to The Earth Day Be-In, celebrating the further evolution of the
digital revolution: building a sustainable culture.

Digital Be-In 14, this year on Earth Day 2006, is a timely convergence of
the San Francisco Bay Area's forward thinking technologists and the
advanced cyberculture they have fostered ú with the vanguard of the
sustainable culture movement represented by the region's huge concentration
of green start-ups, environmental non-profit groups and conscious consumers.
The Earth Day Be-In is combination symposium, exhibition, rally and
multimedia entertainment extravaganza featuring a range of presentations
focused on sustainability solutions, with some of San Francisco's top
"conscious music" acts, DJs, and visual and performance artists.

FOR COMPLETE INFO see
http://www.be-in.com
site updated regularly

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a mix to groove to

2005-12-19T21:04:19Z

just thought I'd share a recent mix that djPush and I tagged out on Futurebreaks FM a few weeks ago.
http://futurebreaks.fm/music/FBFM-20051126-djPUSH_DJDov.m4a
and part 2 here
http://futurebreaks.fm/music/FBFM-20051126-djPUSH_DJDov-pt2.m4a
if you struggle with those links just go to http://www.futurebreaks.fm/
and it's all there too.

also I'm late on the mark, but you can vote for Dov or Push or anyone else you like at the Nitevibe poll here:
http://www.nitevibe.com/dreamteam2005/sfpoll/page1.asp

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Friday December 2nd, Vau De Vire Society and nasty breaks at Bedlam @ 1015 Folsom

2005-11-30T03:52:06Z

Friday December 2nd

10pm-4am - 1015 Folsom St. SF, CA 94103 Open Bar reception with Hors D'oeuvres from 10-11pm, and music until 4am

$10 Cover Charge $10

Performances by Vau De Vire Society

Welcome to the launch of a new night of music, featuring a toxic blend of XXxtra large breaks, crunked out Glitch Hop, Dub Stepping vibes and, Electro Infused House. This night strives to be more than just about the Dj's, but the music they they play, so NO there is no DJ list, or time slots, just great music played by some of the best DJ's on 2 different systems. We aim to make this party a bit more intimate so we aren't going to open the main room at 1015. just the front and the upstairs, with it's killer system that has just been revamped.

Join us on a night where the only stars of the show is you. come early and enjoy an open bar and exquisite morsels, while you bathe in the beauty of community.

Welcome to Bedlam, it's gonna get hot in here!
the Beats will be nasty in the best way, see you on the dancefloor.
Flash Flyer here: http://www.an-ten-nae.net/

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Youth at Supperclub on Saturday 11/19

2005-11-15T01:26:47Z

There will be a great vibe Saturday the 19th at the Supperclub here in San Francisco with Youth coming in from London to play some deep dubby grooves and fresh trance explorations. B.Smiley, Ricardo, Goz, and Saturnia will also be spinning - and the party will evolve from a rich downtempo groove into a psy-trance space later in the morning.

Supperclub is a new venue in SF. It originated in Amsterdam, and is quite a striking multi-sensory environment. If you've been wanting to check it out, this would be a good night to do so!

________________________________
Saturday November 19, 2005
11:30 - late
$10

YOUTH
B.Smiley
Ricardo
Goz
Saturnia

Supperclub
657 Harrison @ 2nd/3rd
www.supperclubsf.com
________________________________

About YOUTH...
Youth is a remarkably prolific producer, label founder, and collaborator with everyone from Alex Patterson/ORB to Paul McCartney/The Fireman. His labels Dragonfly Records, Liquid Sound Design, and Kamaflage are pace-setting with international dance culture, and his recent Youth in Dub series has brought him back out into performance spaces around the world. Kind of like those years touring as bass player of Killing Joke...

www.youth.me.uk
www.liquidsounddesign.com
www.dragonflyrecords.com
www.kamaflage.com

We are preparing to launch the new record label CYBERSET soon, and this event produced by Supperclub is a preview of things to come: B.Smiley is on the label (with Irina Mikhailova), as is Youth and Ricardo (Cyberset is distributing Dragonfly and Liquid Sound Design titles in the US).

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Remembering Allen Cohen

2005-09-23T23:24:22Z

Almost a year has gone by since his passing, and since tomorrow would have been Allen Cohen's 65th birthday, I thought I'd post links here to some tribute pages in honor of his work and life. He announced the first "be-in" in 1967, the "Gathering of the Tribes" in Golden Gate Park, but more than that, as publisher and poet, he influenced many writers and artists during his day. He was well loved and remembered.

Biography and Texts:
http://net.info.nl/cohen/
http://www.familydog.com/allen.html

Poetry:
http://www.sfheart.com/cohen.html

Memories:
http://www.sfheart.com/cohen_memories.html

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Ecopalooza Green Living Expos

2005-04-11T06:02:12Z

Hey,

Check out
http://ecopalooza.tribe.net/
http://www.ecopalooza.com

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Yahoo 360

2005-04-07T00:15:35Z

So I signed up to be on the waiting list to try Yahoo 360, the new hybrid service that brings together social networking and blogs. Anyone here besides Marc used it? Here's what Many 2 Many blogged about it: http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/03/16/yahoo_360.php

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"Internet Law in the Balance"

2005-04-04T23:38:10Z

Grokster and Brand X go to the Supreme Court:
http://www.freepress.net/content/grokster_brandx

Should peer-to-peer networks be legal? Should independent ISPs have open access to cable companies' networks? The Supreme Court will decide.

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Blending Art & Tech

2005-04-04T21:57:32Z

The highly experimental Boston Cyberarts Festival is coming up. It runs from April 22nd to May 8th. http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/

And they have a cool online gallery too: http://gallery.bostoncyberarts.org/

So looks like Boston's the place to be for innovative "Creative Collisions in Art + Technology" with conferences on gaming and dance as well as a major conference, Ideas in Motion, on dance, movement and technology.

Do we have anything similar around the Bay Area?

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Media Consolidation

2005-03-29T21:33:30Z

Came across these resources while researching the latest developments in the FCC case regarding deregulation and changing of media ownership rules.

Thought those of you who were at the 12th Be-In (theme: media revolution) might be interested.

- Journalism.org: http://www.journalism.org/resources/research/reports/ownership/deregulation2.asp

- Media Alliance: http://www.media-alliance.org/article.php?story=20050127173243183

- Mediageek.org
http://www.mediageek.org/

- NOW with Bill Moyers: http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/fccchanges.html

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Photoshop Dominates Digital Art?

2005-03-29T21:01:32Z

As I was perusing the Digital Art Gallery from Macworld's 2005 Contest,
(some amazing work there), it seemed like most of the pieces were made using Adobe's ubiquitous tool. I guess that shouldn't have surprised me, given that they're still images.

Check it out here:
http://www.macworldexpo.com/live/20/HP920840

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Web Advertising on the Increase

2005-03-28T21:34:49Z

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4563331

I heard this story about Google ads this morning on NPR, and wondered if it was any indication of a broader trend. Can it mean that web pages and netcasting are starting to take more eyes away from traditional media?

This could be good news for smaller independent publishers, but probably not enough to counteract large mergers and aquisitions in the world of TV, radio and newspapers.

In June last year giants like NBC Universal, Viacom Inc. (which owns CBS), News Corp. (Fox), Tribune Co. and Gannett Company asked the Supreme Court to allow the FCC's new rules to deregulate media. We're still waiting on that decision.

But let's say we end up with one huge corporation controlling all our news and entertainment. Won't the masses eventually get fed up with it and turn to other outlets for more diverse and richer sources?

Will the internet be able to provide people with that? What other new technologies can help fill the void?

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friday 4th March Karsh Kale, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, Sukhawat Ali Khan and Riffat Sultana

2005-03-02T18:53:34Z

Worldly
Friday March 04th 2005

San Francisco ’s Thriving World Electronica Scenes Come Together again for a Unique Night of Heavy Live Percussion, Cutting Edge Beats and Traditional Music at SF ’s State of the Art Sound and Video Super Club 1015 Folsom. This is a one of a kind event with five rooms of world class and world flavored music.

Pre-sale tickets are only $15 email info@dhamaalsf.com
Your name will be held the 1015 Folsom box office
Tickets at the door are $20

Wanna know more about the artists? Check this
www.dhamaalsf.com/mailer/wo...y2details.htm

Main Room
Bobby Friction & Nihal (BBC Radio 1, UK)
Karsh Kale (Live Electronic Tabla Set)
Janaka Selekta, MC Colonel and Shabi Farooq (Tabla)

Six Degrees Room
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Karsh Kale (DJ Set)
Maneesh the Twister (Dhamaal SF)

Shabaz Live Lounge
Sukhawat Ali Khan and Riffat Sultana (Pakistani Folk & Indian Classical)
Shiraz Ali Khan (Guitar)
Ferhan Qureshi & Shabi Farooq (Tabla)

The Groove Garden
DJ Dragonfly (The Groove Garden)
Rhythmystic (Beatstream.net / Rhythm Society)
DJ Sep (Dub Mission)
Ameet (Part-Time-Chiller.com)
Amar (Bansuri.net)

Breaks Room
Adam Ohana (Get Freaky / An-ten-nae.net)
Michele Bass (mystikalchemy.com)
Mozaic (13 Moontribe)
Neptune (Spiritual Technology)
Visual Installations
Skip Intro and El Diablo (Digital Art)
Fine Art by Nyomi

Dance Performance by
Ultra Gypsy
Sundariya (Outfits Designed by Saffron Fine Threads)

Chaat Food Provided by India Chaat & Sweets & Tea from Samovar Tea House in the Shabaz Lounge.

Eight Hours of World Class Performances for only $15 Presale!! ?$20 at the Door

Worldly Volume II
Club 1015
March 4th 2005
1015 Folsom @ 6th St
21+ : 15 Presale : $20 Door : 10pm –6 am

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Spoken Word and Multimedia Performance- March 17, 2005

2005-02-15T12:14:20Z

JUXTAPOSE II - March 17, 2005
Spoken Word and Multimedia Performance by Local Authors., Wild Writing Women & Pathways presents the second Juxtapose, an experiment in word and multimedia and music performance by an extremely diverse selection of 12 local writers and 1 classical guitarist. 111minnagallery.com 111 Minna St. @ 2nd, San Francisco. More info: http://www.wildwritingwomen.com/calendar/juxtapose2.html

http://artintoindustry.net/

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Be-In 13 Photos and Transparent Network Gallery up on site

2004-06-10T21:03:45Z

Greetings -
We have posted photos from the Be-In 13 event two weeks ago on the site...
http://www.be-in.com/13/photos/index.html
(please send more! - include caption and credit please)

Also, our Transparent Network Gallery is up:
http://www.be-in.com/pages/transparent.html
(click on the thumbnail artworks to see the large versions)

Greg Jalbert produced at Live Blog on the night of the event also, on the
Be-In Now blog:
http://verbum.typepad.com/bein_now/2004/05/allen_cohen_tri.html
(click on the blog entries to the right to see the evening's postings)

We'll have some video up on the site next week.

all best,
Michael

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thanks

2004-06-02T10:23:08Z

thanks to all who came and made it the special event that it was. A funny comment at the end of the night from a happy partier to promoter Mike Gosney,
" so you are changing consciousness on purpose?"
...you could say that.

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Credit Where Credit is Due

2004-06-02T06:52:33Z

WOW! Once again, the co-creative process of the Digital Be-In gave us something "more than the sum of our parts." I want to thank the core group of Team 13 for their positive spirit and hard work putting this all together. We will have full credits up on http://www.be-in.com soon, along with many photos and video clips, the complete Transparent Network gallery, speaker content and more. Also, the Be-In Now blog has material from the live event and will live on @ http://verbum.typepad.com/bein_now/.

Sincere thanks for all who created Digital Be-In 13: not only the production crew, but all the volunteers and friends who helped before and at the event, the artists, musicians, and speakers, the sponsors and suppliers, the super cool folks at SOMARTs...and most important, the amazing circle of people who found themselves coming together at the 2004 Be-In in San Francisco.

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Alcyone Tribe

2004-06-02T03:18:22Z

join us! - http://alcyonemusic.tribe.net

many thanks to Michael Gosney and everyone else who participated and helped make the 13th Be-In such a splendid event!

seeya next year!

Suzanne
Alcyone.
:):):)

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Anyone wanna come with me to the event?

2004-05-29T20:30:42Z

I'm not shy but ...

I don't know anyone here ...

Would love an intro?

PEACE

Ari

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Interpretation #1 - EFF's version of Transparent Network

2004-05-28T02:55:26Z

OK - so this is teh thread which will track a polticial, privacy perspective of what a tansparent network is and should be.

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Ambient Alchemy Tour 2004

2004-05-27T08:08:57Z

Greetings all!

Ambient Alchemy Tour is about to embark again this year, with our first stop at the Digital Be In!

Line Up Includes:
Shakatura (CyberOctave, Ceiba, Native State)
Solar Fields (Ultimae, 3D Vision, SpiralTrax, & many more)
Phutureprimitive (Waveform, Native State)
Bluetech (Aleph Zero, Waveform, Native State)

All relevant information can be found at www.ambientalchemy.com Dates will be updated as soon as they are confirmed.

Feel free to pass this info to relevant parties.

Cheers,

Evan Bluetech

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Cyber vs Meat space

2004-05-25T03:07:37Z

Anotehr way to look at all this is to parse out just where we're finding our communities and how we interact.

Some use the Internet.

Some use parties.

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the silent majority

2004-05-22T07:25:14Z

it made me sad that your digest commented on the fact that few of us are posting. i'm sure there are some like me that have read everything with interest, are following what's going on, have perhaps submitted art or something, but just don't have anything to post. so buck up little bronco, some of us are really here.

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Allen Cohen: Peace Poet

2004-05-20T16:32:02Z

We are going to honor Allen Cohen, founder of the San Francisco Oracle and co-organizer of the Human Be-In, at Digital Be-In 13. Allen moved beyond the veil recently - here's the link to the SF Chronicle story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/01/BAG446E5SR1.DTL

I will be posting more here and on the Be-In Now blog soon about Allen and the invaluable contributions he made to our tribe, and to the world.

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Tickets for Tribe Members

2004-05-14T21:43:49Z

As a tribe member you are entitled to the discount price of $15 (instead of the $20 presale/$25)
You can either get these tickets at www.acteva.com/go/verbum, or you can take a printout of your Tribe member page to a ticket outlet (and leave it withb them);
Bay Area locations:
Ceiba Records* - 463 Haight St., San Francisco, 415 437 9598
Distractions* - 552 Haight St., San Franicsco, 415 252 8751
Skills* - 2575 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, 510-704-9876
Remember to use you same Tribe ID / name at the door as the one you use to get your ticket, as this will be crosschecked at the door.

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Networks / transparent / open / closed / shadow

2004-05-08T04:50:43Z

What makes a network transparent?

Is it the connectivity within the network -

or the visibility of the network as a whole?

is it the content of what is transmitted across the network -

or the linkages between nodes?

is there a difference between an

open network

and a

transparent network?

what is the relationship between an 'open society
and a 'transparent network'

questions questions...

any thoughts?

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Ram Dass and Wavy Gravy should be great

2004-05-08T04:47:46Z

I'm excited to hear one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time, Ram Dass, what a privilege.

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Mining the blgosphere

2004-05-08T04:44:38Z

So it starts http://blogs.it/0100198/2004/05/07.html#a2702 [here] - and grows.

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Digital Be-In 13

2004-05-04T23:39:07Z

This year, the Digital Be-In is themed "The Transparent Network." One key interpretation of the term (ala Michael Gosney), is in reference to the fast-evolving infosphere and communications networks that promise an open and widely accessible flow of information and contact between people, groups and institutions worldwide.

Open source software, social networks and personal identities, human vs. corporate rights in cyberspace, alternatives to consumer-driven and politicized mass media, the "Digital Divide" between rich and poor and many other vital topics will be in the spotlight at Digital Be-In 13 on May 29, 2004 in San Francisco.

Join the discussion!

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Music samples

2004-05-04T22:39:04Z

I just posted some music samples on the BE-In Now blog (at verbum.typepad.com/bein_now)

Here is the permalink:
http://verbum.typepad.com/bein_now/2004/05/artists_and_spe.html

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#3 Interpretation - from a virtual digital lifestyle perspective

2004-05-02T23:11:51Z

This is where I'm coming from.

Your digital lifestyel shoudl give you a virtual fiel system - allowing you to access your music, images, friends, events schedule, everything about you - that you need - anywhere.

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#2 Interpretation - Psycho Healing, Transmorgified version

2004-05-02T23:10:44Z

I don't know much about this track - except that it exists.

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Weekly meeting

2004-04-29T00:03:39Z

Hey there,

We are having our weekly meeting tonight at 6:30pm. A prominent topic we'll be discussing is blogging as well as social networking. If anyone is interested in helping with the Be-In blog, give me a call. 786-5792

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some more performers confirmed

2004-04-26T18:04:01Z

Some more performers just confirmed

The stage area with Breaks is looking to be really good, starting with some interactive live performers Alcyone and then Tonehenge with some dubby funk grooves and then throbbing, bouncy bass from Ooah (Terpsichore LA), Space Cowboy DJs (which ones TBA) and of course Dov (Muti Music/Bass Apnea)
more news to come...

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Yo yo baby yo

2004-04-09T16:18:11Z

It's time to start the show,
no time to say hello - goodbye
it's back to work I go.

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